On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 12:58 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
>
> I'm not sure specifying -nographic in a BSP layer via QB_GRAPHICS is
> correct. QB_GRAPHICS is intended for what emulated hardware should be
> present in the guest machine.
>
> -nographic is a host option that tells qemu what to do with the
> graphical output (in case of -nographic, discard it). I don't think
> it's up to the BSP layer to make that decision.
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the feedback.
In meta-zephyr/meta-zephyr-bsp/conf/machine/qemu-x86.conf are defined several
QEMU settings that are used to generate the.qemuboot.conf file during the image
build (e.g.
${TMPDIR}/deploy/images/qemu-x86/zephyr-helloworld-qemu-x86-20260201174846.elf).
The expectation is that, based on the resulting.qemuboot.conf , running runqemu
should be sufficient to boot Zephyr and see the console output in the terminal
(no GUI required). However, in this case QB_GRAPHICS="-nographic" is ignored,
and the generated QEMU invocation still selects a graphical display device, so
the Zephyr output does not appear on the terminal as expected. Please see the
QEMU command:
/<path-to>/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386 -nic none -object
rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0
-machine type=q35 -cpu qemu32,+nx,+pae -m 256 -serial mon:vc -serial null
-device virtio-vga -display sdl,show-cursor=on -nographic -machine acpi=off
-kernel <path-to-build>
/tmp/deploy/images/qemu-x86/zephyr-helloworld-qemu-x86-20260201174846.elf
-append ' mem=256M swiotlb=0 '
So even though -nographic is present, QEMU is still invoked with -device
virtio-vga and -display sdl , and the serial is set to mon:vc.
My intent with the patch is to ensure that when QB_GRAPHICS includes -nographic
, runqemu does not select a graphical display device and routes the serial
console to the terminal (so the Zephyr log is visible as expected).
Please let me know if I'm not on the right track. Thank you!
Charles Dias
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